ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,795, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Vacuum coating device for uniformly distributing metal steam by using guide plate type structure" was invented by Sanbing Ren (Shanghai), Shanqing Li (Shanghai), Junfei Fan (Shanghai), Fei Xiong (Shanghai) and Xiaoli Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is a vacuum coating device for uniformly distributing metal steam by using a guide plate type structure. The vacuum coating device comprises a crucible, wherein an induction heater for heating molten metal in the crucible to form metal steam is arranged outside...